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...ELECTRIC CONDUCTOR: PW and Kirkus both give starred reviews to "The Letters of Arturo Toscanini," edited by Harvey Sachs (Knopf; April 28). Says Kirkus, "A rich and vivid collection of the great conductor?s correspondence. Music historian Sachs (no relation) learned of these letters after publishing his definitive biography (?Toscanini,? 1978), and while they contain no startling revelations, they give us a much better understanding of a man who famously refused all interviews and wrote no memoirs. In his introduction, Sachs predicts that Toscanini?s numerous affairs will garner the most attention, and there are indeed many, many pages...
...want to be: alongside a gun-toting twentysomething sidling up to the Shanghai Club's Long Bar. Clipped and believable, the dialogue is thankfully not laden with clichEd detective slang. And Bradby doesn't bore us by showing off all that historical research. Instead, he weaves together a vivid portrait of the times and a ripping good crime tale as he slowly unravels the characters' hidden secrets (and they all have them). As Field's ribald aunt puts it: "Everyone expects Shanghai to be decadent so we like to give the impression of debauchery." The Master of Rain goes...
...eventually the British press and public softened toward her. Compared with the present generation of royals, her misadventures started to seem quaint. By that time, the years of heavy smoking and single-malt Scotch had begun to take their toll, but by that time too, she had lived a vivid life. It tells you something that she called her house on Mustique Les Jolie Eaux (Happy Waters). No doubt she was a woman made miserable by the confines of royalty. She also made merry within them...
DIED. CLAUDE BROWN, 64, author whose streetwise chronicle of growing up poor in Harlem, Manchild in the Promised Land, became a provocative civil rights-era best seller; of lung disease; in New York City. With its profanity and vivid descriptions of a childhood among pimps, drugs and gangs, Brown's 1965 book impressed critics and sold 4 million copies...
Julia, played convincingly by Irene Daly, embodies the woman ruled by self-doubt. She is a cripple with vivid delusions of an unseen oppressor who, in one scene, forces her to recite a prayer that calls women unclean creatures denied entrance into heaven...